Harness



(No Model.) F.` L HEMRY.

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No. 343.583,. Patented June 15, 1886.

ATTORNEYS.

UNITED Sirrrrns PATENT Ormea.

FRANKLIN L. HEMRY, OF OOMLY, OHIO.

HARNESS.

SF'ECIFKCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 343,583,.dated June 15, .1888.

Application liletl September 525, 1885. Serial No.*178,153. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANKLIN L. HEMRY, of Gomly, iu the county of Perry and State oi' Ohio, have invented anew and Improved Harness, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a harness wherein the breeching passes over the rump of the horse, and the invention consists, principally, in dividing the back strap, or making it in two parts, where it joins or intersects the brceching, so as to remove all strain and press ure from the spine of the horse while in the act of backing or holding back a load.

The invention also consists in making the forward end of the back-strap in two parts, which are attached to the harness to transfer all or a portion of the weight of the collar, hames, tongue, neck-yoke, dre., from the neck to the back of the horse to prevent galling of the neck, that sometimes occurs.

The invention, finally, consists of the construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, all as hereinfter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying,` drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure l shows my new harness applied toa horse, and showing the neck-yoke attached and in section; and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the harness without the hames, collar, traces,

holdback and breast straps.

The hames A, collar B, back pad C, and belly-band D may be ofthe usual or of any approved construction, except that the hamesA are each provided with a ring or eye, a, below the upper hamestrap, a', to receive the straps e e of the back-strap E.

F is the breeching. This passes over the rump of the horse and is attached to the backstrap E,an`d is composed of the two side straps, ff, and the central iron, f, that joins the adjacent ends of the two straps f. The iron f is curved upward in the center, and the backstrap E is slotted or made in two parts, e e', under the iron f, as shown, so that no part of the harness touches the spine of the horse at the point wherethe breeching crosses the rump. The lower ends of the breeching are held in place by the strap G, that passes over the back of the horse, and is attached to the backstrap E, and the lower ends of the breeching are attached to the holdback-strap II, or bellyband D, by the side straps, I I, and short strap J, and the holdback -strap II is attached to the neck-yoke K or collar B, and the latter is attached to the hames by the strap L in the ordinary manner, and the traces M are attached to the hames in the usual manner, and are held by.loops d and hip-straps j, which are made in two parts joined together, and to the parts c' e of the back-strap E, by the arched iron j', so that all pressure is removed from the bony prominences at the summit of the horses rump, situated immediately ou either side of the spinal column, and upon which there is constant pressure by the ordinary harness.

By dividing the back-strap E at its forward end and using the two straps e, attached to the hames, the weight of the hames and collar,and all parts attached thereto, may beshifted from the top of the horses neck to his back, and by dividing the back-strap E at the hips and placing the breeching over the rump 4of the horse there is no danger of injurious pressure coming upon the horses spine, and the advantage that this situation of the breeching and weight of the hames, collar, Sie., gives to the horse in backing or holding back a load is considerable, since the load comes upon him in the line of his greatest strength-viz., immediately over and in line with his limbs-and it gives him the advantage oi' his weight, in addition to his strength, in holding back, and does not restrain any of his movements or the expansion of his muscles indrawing. The dividing of the back-strap also removes pressure of the back-strap upon the Withers.

In some cases I shall make the breeehing F and arch-iron j adjustable along the backstrap E, to exactly suit the harness to the horse, and this adjustment may be accomplished by means of the spring hooks or fastenings it, attached to the arch-iron, and adapted to enter holes t" t in the parts e e of the back-strap, as shown in Fig. 2, or by any other suitable means.

In some cases-as in heavy harness-the back-strap may be twice divided, and one part on either side of the harness to be adjustable on the hames.

I-Iaving thus described my invention, what I Ioov claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a harness, the breeehing arranged to pass over the rninp of the horse, in combination with the back-strap divided at the hips of the horse7 and having its branch straps connected with the breeching7 substantiall y as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The back-strap E, having the breeehing F connected thereto, and formed with the straps e, adapted to be attached to the haines, substantially as described.

3. The haines A, provided with the rings or eyes a, in combination with the back-strap E, formed or provided with the short straps @.substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

4v. In a harness,thebreeching provided with strapsff, joined by a curved plate, in combination with the two-part bael -st1ap, substan- 2o tially as and for the purpose set forth.

In a harness, the back-strap formed with straps c c and e c', in combination with the haines having rings or eyes, thehip-strap made in two parts `ioi ned together and to the straps e c by the arch-piecej, and the breeching having straps joined together and to the straps e by the curved or arched platef, substantially y as and for the purpose described.

6.l The back-strap E, divided to form the straps e' e', in combination with the hip-strap j, made in two parts and attached to the straps 

